COBB STADIUM
We’ll pay for Braves project in our taxes
My mother always told me that if you have to do something in secret, there is probably something wrong with it. The recent revelation of the Braves stadium deal with Cobb County officials seems to fit this saying. Could it be true this deal would benefit all involved? Hardly!
My family built homes in the early ’70s when an almost rural lifestyle was the norm. We have gradually seen our Terrell Mill Estates subdivision encroached upon by business and traffic. We have all but lost our bucolic way of life.
No one can say the proposed entertainment complex would not negatively impact our traffic and taxes. There is no way Georgia DOT can compensate for the temporary influx of Braves game-day traffic. How can our commissioners say they are not voting for a tax increase that we will be paying for many years, if it will be financed by continuing the SPLOST funding that will be paid out of Cobb County property taxes?
The county should not be in the entertainment business! The silent majority may be screaming out their opinion with their next vote.
J. RICHARD MORRIS, Cobb County
RELIGION
Critic of Christians should look in mirror
Recently someone wrote about how conservative Christians hate, instead of being like Jesus, who always loved everyone (“Jesus preached love; why don’t Christians?” Letters, Dec. 26). The writer seems to be the one hating Christianity by judging and condemning. He mentioned Christians hating gays, minorities and women. Christians do not hate anyone. Christians do hate the sin of the act of homosexuality, not the person. Christians hate racism. Christians hate abortion, not women.
The writer would be best served by thinking more clearly for himself, instead of being led by left-wing liberal hypocrisy. He also mentioned he was a non-believer. If he is a non-believer, then how does he know or believe who Jesus was and what Jesus did?
ALLEN SITTEN, Cartersville
REGIONALISM
To work together, we must have leadership
Your Sunday editorial (“Resolve for a new year,” Opinion, Jan. 5) is on target but needs ammunition. Clearly, we have difficult regional problems demanding regional solutions. You write, “We know what they are.” Yet you don’t name any. Neither is there any suggestion concerning what sort of regional organ might cope with the chaos of regional individualism.
How do we raise regional awareness, and how do we act within the framework of existing governmental entities, without getting diverted by those entities and their associated special interests? As our great metro paper, we must expect you to take editorial leadership. Help the region realize some of that “resolve.”
THE REV. JOSEPH D. HERRING, Johns Creek
